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"Potable" means "Good for drinking without fear of poisoning or disease". I know of no other meaning, and neither does Wiktionary.
In Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians in the section on Thomas Arnold I came across this:
The P is capitalised in my edition (Readaclassic), but I have to say it looks like the whole text has been scanned from some older edition, as there are a few obvious glitches that Strachey would never have intended. So, assuming "Potable" is not such a glitch, what could Strachey have meant here? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 12:42, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Someone offers a sentence with head-scratching anomaly, probably a typo or scan artifact. Others try to solve it. Some attempt to puzzle out or intuit for the original, with the benefit that it can be checked, eventually. Others reach for maximum creativity, and explain what the sentence could then possibly mean. What is this game called? I propose potable-notable. Carbon Caryatid ( talk) 18:53, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
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"Potable" means "Good for drinking without fear of poisoning or disease". I know of no other meaning, and neither does Wiktionary.
In Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians in the section on Thomas Arnold I came across this:
The P is capitalised in my edition (Readaclassic), but I have to say it looks like the whole text has been scanned from some older edition, as there are a few obvious glitches that Strachey would never have intended. So, assuming "Potable" is not such a glitch, what could Strachey have meant here? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 12:42, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Someone offers a sentence with head-scratching anomaly, probably a typo or scan artifact. Others try to solve it. Some attempt to puzzle out or intuit for the original, with the benefit that it can be checked, eventually. Others reach for maximum creativity, and explain what the sentence could then possibly mean. What is this game called? I propose potable-notable. Carbon Caryatid ( talk) 18:53, 23 June 2018 (UTC)